Back in Society: A Novel of Regency England (The Poor Relation, Vol 6) - Hardcover

Chesney, Marion

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312109326 ISBN 13: 9780312109325

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1994

Synopsis

While considering offers to sell The Poor Relation Hotel, the hotel inhabitants come to the aid of their newest guest, the recently widowed Lady Jane Fremney, rescuing her from bankruptcy and a failed suicide attempt by trying to find her a new husband.

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About the Author:

M. C. Beaton has won international acclaim for her bestselling Hamish Macbeth mysteries and the Agatha Raisin mystery series. She is also the author of more than one hundred romance titles and a series of romantic suspense novels, the Edwardian Mystery series. Born in Scotland, she now divides her time between Paris and the English Cotswolds.

From Publishers Weekly:

Chesney wraps up The Poor Relation series ( Colonel Sandhurst to the Rescue ) with this enjoyable story. Featuring several old series hands--blustery and sarcastic Sir Philip, the still unmarried Miss Tonks and Lady Fortescue, the eccentric hoteliers' concerned mother hen--the story hinges on the group's efforts to help their new guest, young Lady Jane Fremney, after she proves unable to pay her bills and attempts suicide. As in the first five entries in this popular Regency series, the plotting is lushly tangled and rich in romance (Lady Jane, who's run away from home to avoid an arranged marriage, is forced to choose between a stable but boring Englishman and an unpredictable but dashing French count). Though her language sometimes shifts disconcertingly from the formal, even antique ("she preferred to stay wrapped in dull numb misery that would make what she had to do the easier") to the colloquial and modern (one character "put the pistol in his mouth and blew his brains out"), Chesney delivers a pleasurable farewell to a memorable cast of heartwarming characters.
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About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0312109326
• ISBN 13: 9780312109325
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 152